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| yanqui.cebador Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5250 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 9 of 14 06 July 2010 at 2:17am | IP Logged |
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Great thread!
For short chapters, you could try El Túnel by Ernesto Sabato. It reminded me a lot of The Strangerby Camus. Speaking of Eduardo Galeano, I just started reading Días y noches de amor y de guerra. There aren´t really chapters in this book but short diatribes of about 1-2 pages in length. This book is about his experience after he fled Uruguay because of the dictatorship. I haven´t read too much by Horacio Quiroga, but what I read--"El hombre muerto" and "El almohadón de pluma"--I loved. Cuentos de la selva and Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte are both short story collections of his. Julio Cortázar also writes short stories of about 10 pages each. Just finished Relato de un náufrago by Gabriel García Márquez and it´s a true story that was serialized for the newspaper when he was a journalist. Since you´re interested in politics, the story is set during the military dictatorship in Colombia. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| !LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6812 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes  Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish | Message 10 of 14 06 July 2010 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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Thanks a lot this is great!
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| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5527 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 11 of 14 02 September 2010 at 9:31pm | IP Logged |
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Try "El Club Dumas" and "La Reina del Sur" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. I think his style is close to what you're looking for.
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| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5172 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* | Message 12 of 14 03 October 2010 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
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I like Rosario Ferré novels. Vecindarios Excéntricos was especially good if you like lots of short chapters that tell mini-stories (all about the various generations of one family).
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 13 of 14 04 October 2010 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
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You can't go wrong with anything written by Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez Reverte and Gabriel García Márquez. All are also available in English translation.
I am currently reading in Spanish translation "En las Tierrras del Fondo" by Harry Turtledove, English title- "Down in the Bottomlands". It's an alternate history novella about a world where the Mediterranean is dry land and the Neanderthals didn't go extinct and co-exist with homo-sapiens. Available free and legally in English at the publisher Baen Free Library- Down in the Bottomlands and in Spanish at EduMec Biblioteca Digital ¡Que te diviertes! Edited by iguanamon on 04 October 2010 at 1:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5172 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 14 12 October 2010 at 11:17pm | IP Logged |
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I just started my first Isabel Allende novel (Retrato en Sepia) and agree with those who have said she is a good writer.
I read a young adult book by her first and was disappointed (El Reino del Dragón de Oro) but her adult novel drew me right in. I guess writing in a jK Rowling a YA style requires a whole different set of skills. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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